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Chapter 183 Cracked! The ultimate goal of the Four Elephants Organization!

The two sentences "warm and kind at the end, careful about one's body" originate from the "Book of Songs" and express the highest praise for women's character.

Therefore, there are these two poems on this jade pendant. There is no doubt that this is a jade pendant specially prepared for women.

As for Sun Fujia and Du Gou, in their expectation, they could run with the ship many times, kill people so ruthlessly, and even wield an ax to cut through the ship's plank. No matter what, they thought that the mysterious man must be a man. , so I was really shocked that the owner of this jade pendant was a woman.

Lin Feng listened to Sun Fujia's unexpected exclamation without any change in his expression. Before there is enough evidence to point to the identity of the prisoner, he will never subjectively judge whether the prisoner is a man or a woman, so even if the prisoner is a person who is neither male nor female. , and he won't have any surprises.

"Even if the crew members died, they would hide it and leave it to future generations. They probably thought that later generations would be able to find the mysterious person through the jade pendant."

Lin Feng looked at the emerald green jade pendant and said slowly: "This also proves that this jade pendant was not stolen or robbed by the mysterious man. It is indeed the mysterious man's own thing, and it should be very identifiable, not just any one." A person can have it... In addition, this jade pendant has a surname and is of excellent quality. It is absolutely extraordinary. Not surprisingly, this jade pendant should be the inheritance jade pendant or status jade pendant of a certain family."

"If we can find the family represented by this jade pendant, we should be able to know who its owner is."

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Gou and Sun Fujia both nodded.

They thought the same thing.

Du Gou said: "There is one big family named Chen in Linshui County!"

As he said that, he looked at Lin Feng, and a strange look flashed in his warm eyes: "Zide, do you think... could it be the Chen family?"

Lin Feng squinted his eyes, recalling in his mind the scenes of his stay in the Chen family, every word he said when he came into contact with Chen Yitian, and the trust that Xiao Yu and Xiao Man'er had in the Chen family.

He shook his head and said: "So far, at least I haven't found anything unusual... But the only Chen family I have contacted is the head of the Chen family. This jade pendant is a woman's jade pendant. Even if it is the Chen family's jade pendant, it definitely does not belong to Chen Yitian. .”

"So whether it is the Chen family or not, you still need to go there in person."

Du Gou reminded: "Don't scare the snake."

Lin Feng smiled and said: "Don't worry, I have my own plan."

Du Gou naturally trusted Lin Feng's caution. After all, in order to hide his identity, Lin Feng made the groundbreaking choice to meet him in the toilet. Du Gou felt that he would never forget that smelly toilet meeting. , he reminded Lin Feng, it was just out of his own cautious nature.

With the direction of follow-up investigation, Lin Feng temporarily put away the jade pendant.

He looked around the room again, thought for a while, and said, "To be on the safe side, let's search this room carefully again, and don't miss any corner to see if there is anything else hidden."

When Du Gou and Sun Fuga heard this, they naturally had no objections.

The three of them quickly separated and conducted a search.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the three of them stood up one after another.

"No."

"I don't have one here either."

After listening to the two people's words, Lin Feng nodded: "It seems there are no other clues here..."

With that said, he turned around and walked out: "Let's go to the last room."

The three of them left the ship boss's room and continued walking along the dim corridor for a short distance before arriving at the last door.

The door in front of me was half open, but there were obvious signs of rough impact on the door.

Du Gou said: "When the government officials were treating the water here, this door was locked with a lock. They didn't have the key, so they could only use this method to break it open and release the water inside."

Lin Feng nodded slightly and said slowly: "This is the only locked door in the entire ship, and the hole that was dug happens to be right here. It seems that the mysterious man is also afraid that after he leaves, the crew members will break free from the ropes and escape. , so this door is locked specifically to prevent the crew from changing the outcome of the shipwreck even if they accidentally escape."

Du Zaozhao thought for a while and said: "It seems that in the eyes of the mysterious person, the importance of the shipwreck is higher than the importance of silence."

Sun Fujia didn't know enough about this case. When he heard this, he couldn't help but wonder: "Since you are afraid that the crew members will break free from the ropes, why don't you just kill them first? They have been tied up anyway, so killing them should not cause any problems." What difficulty?"

Lin Feng said with a smile: "Since we want to fake the follow-up water ghost murder, we naturally have to make it look weird. Only by letting people on the shore hear the cry for help from the ship can people believe that there were really crew members when the ship sank. In this case, the people in the yamen can't find any corpses, which will make it even more weird and remind people of the rumors of water ghosts."

Du Gou nodded in agreement: "Zide is right. It was because the farmers on the shore were sure to cry for help and no one escaped. That's why when the county government couldn't find the body, all kinds of rumors spread all over the sky. ...Otherwise, some people will doubt whether they escaped before the ship sank. In the subsequent massacres, it may be said that the crew of the first ship committed murders through deceit, not the water ghosts."

Lin Feng pushed the door open and said, "That's it. Besides, with the mysterious man's caution, since he has tied them up, he will never let them have a chance to escape... He will lock the door, just out of his more cautious temperament." .”

Sun Fujia listened to the words of Lin Feng and Du Gou, nodded and said: "This mysterious man's plan is really intricate, his thoughts are extremely delicate, and he has achieved the ultimate in every aspect."

While talking, the three of them entered the last boatman's dormitory.

As the lanterns illuminated the dormitory, the scene in front of them made the three of them feel strange.

In the room in front of me, there is an obvious hole in the ground. The hole is very deep and reaches the bottom of the ship. But other than that... the whole room makes it impossible to tell that the cargo ship has gone through the process of being sunk and salvaged, and Compared with the other two rooms, they are simply not as clean as the rooms on the same cargo ship.

No tangled, wet quilt.

There isn't any trash.

"How can it be so clean?"

Sun Fujia frowned and said, "Is there no one living in this room?"

While Sun Fujia was talking, Lin Feng went straight to the only cabinet. Looking at the lock on the cabinet, he squinted his eyes, then turned around and walked outside the door, instructing the guards to get the axe.

Not long after, the guard returned and handed the ax to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng came to the cabinet again and struck down with an axe.

There was a loud "bang" sound, and the small lock of the cabinet was immediately knocked open.

Lin Feng dropped the ax, removed the lock, and opened the cabinet lid.

Looking inside, the next moment, Lin Feng's pupils suddenly shrank.

"Zide, what's wrong?"

Du Gou and Sun Fujia saw Lin Feng's strange behavior and subconsciously took a step forward and looked at the cabinet.

Then, both of them suddenly widened their eyes.

"This……"

"Why is there a female corpse here!?"

The two were filled with astonishment.

Then he saw that the cabinet was filled with water.

In the water, there was a disheveled female corpse wearing a pink pleated skirt.

It's just that this female corpse has been here for two months, and it has long lost its original look. It looks shocking and terrifying.

Even though Du Gou and Sun Fujia were used to seeing dead bodies, they couldn't bear to look at them a second time.

"Somebody come!"

Lin Feng stared at the female body in the cabinet and said, "Take her away immediately, and then let Wu Zuo do a quick autopsy. No matter what method is used, tell Wu Zuo that her age, cause of death, and everything else he can find out must be found out."

The guard did not dare to hesitate after listening to Lin Feng's words.

They quickly took out the female corpse from the cabinet and were about to carry it away when they heard Lin Feng say: "This is done in secret. Don't let anyone else know about the existence of the female corpse, including the people of Linshui County Government... In addition, Wu Zuo After the autopsy, control the man and not allow him to leave without my permission."

Although the guard didn't understand why Lin Feng did this, he didn't say anything, nodded quickly, and quickly carried the female body out.

Du Gou waited quietly for Lin Feng to finish issuing the order, then said, "Zide, are you on guard against the Chen family?"

Lin Feng did not hide anything, he said slowly: "Whether the jade pendant is the Chen family's jade pendant, I don't know for the time being. If it is the Chen family's, with the power of the Chen family, what the county government can know, they will definitely know, so we can't Don’t be defensive.”

"Of course, I'm not just guarding against the Chen family..."

Lin Feng looked at Du Gou and said, "This woman is neither a crew member on the list nor a mysterious person... She is a third-party person who should not be here."

"As I said before, this ship is engaged in illegal business, and we absolutely dare not let outsiders board the ship... And if the mysterious man comes to kill people and silence them, I don't think the mysterious man will bring an untrustworthy outsider with him."

"So, why did she appear here and why was she locked here? Why did the mysterious man lock her here? Why didn't Zhang Mo and the others take her away like the others?"

When Du Gou heard Lin Feng's words, he couldn't help but said: "You said she was locked here by a mysterious person?"

Lin Feng nodded. He still looked at the cabinet and said, "Look in the cabinet. Under the female body, there is a folded quilt."

"There are no beddings in the entire room, and the bed is clean... This cargo ship has three rooms for people to live in. The first room is for the crew, and the second room is for the boss of the ship. So there is no doubt that this The hole-drilled and very clean room can only be occupied by a mysterious person."

As he spoke, Lin Feng looked at the clean room and said, "This mysterious man should have extremely high requirements for cleanliness. He knows how dirty the bedding will be if it is placed on the bed after the shipwreck, so he I put it in the cabinet in advance to keep the room clean and tidy.”

"So, this female corpse was placed on the bedding. It was probably the mysterious person who locked her inside before preparing to sink the ship."

After listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Gou and Sun Fujia pondered for a moment, and then they both nodded in agreement.

Sun Fuga said: "So, this woman should have some kind of relationship with the mysterious person. If her identity can be found out, maybe we can directly identify the mysterious person."

Hearing this, Du Gou couldn't help but excitedly said: "We are closer to the mysterious man."

Lin Feng smiled, slowly exhaled, and said: "I hope so... No matter what, it is a good thing to have new discoveries."

The biggest fear in the investigation is that there will be no progress, no clues, no clues or discoveries. This time, the inspection of the sunken ship was able to find the jade pendant and the unidentified female body, which was already a fruitful harvest.

Lin Feng took one last look at the clean and tidy room and said: "This room has been cleaned by the mysterious person. It seems that there are no other clues. Go out and count the time. The navigation information of these ships should have arrived. Pick up." Come down... let’s see if there are any surprises on the route.”

…………

Just as Lin Feng said, as soon as they left the sunken ship, they met the guards returning from the county government office.

The guard quickly handed Lin Feng the information on all the ships he had obtained.

Lin Feng looked at the thick pile of paper and couldn't help but said: "So many?"

This is just two years worth of sailing information.

If six years of complete information were collected, wouldn’t it be piled up a foot thick?

Du Gou said: "These papers not only record navigation information, but also cargo information, employer information, etc. The information is relatively comprehensive, but it is also complicated, so it is relatively thick."

Lin Feng frowned and said, "If we had enough time, it wouldn't hurt to look at it carefully, but now we are pressed for time and don't have that much time to study it in depth."

"so……"

He looked at the two of them and said, "We only focus on the key points and the route."

"Dr. Lai Guogong, Dr. Sun, let's divide the work and work together. Mr. Lai Guo and I will extract the route and date, and ignore other information for the time being. Then Dr. Sun will mark the route we extracted with different colors of paint. On the map, in this way, we can intuitively see whether their routes are highly overlapping, and we can also judge whether we can find the places where the people were imprisoned based on the routes."

When Du Gou and Sun Fuga heard this, their eyes lit up. They are all smart people, so as soon as Lin Feng talks about it, they will know how efficient and intuitive Lin Feng's method is.

Du Gou said immediately: "No problem...but what you want is not available here. We have to go to the city."

Lin Feng nodded: "It doesn't matter. The investigation of this sunken ship has been completed. There is no point in staying here. Let's go...back to the county."

Three hours later, Linshui County government office.

Inside Du Gou's temporary office.

As Sun Fujia drew the last route information on the map, Lin Feng and the others finally concluded the work of organizing the routes of the five ships.

Even if the three of them worked together, even if they didn't look at other information at all, it still took more than two hours.

Fortunately, they finally finished sorting it out before dark.

Looking at the densely packed routes on the map and the routes that intersected and separated, even Sun Fujia felt a little dizzy.

He said: "Intuition is intuitive, but all routes are drawn on the same map, which is a bit too crowded, dense, and very confusing."

Du Gou looked at the map and had the same idea as Sun Fuga.

But Lin Feng stared at the map closely, carefully distinguishing the route above and the docked ferry, and said slowly: "If each ship's route is drawn on a map, it will look beautiful, but let's compare It’s a lot more troublesome to get up.”

"As it is now, although it is crowded, it can intuitively reflect the situation of these ship routes."

As he spoke, Lin Feng raised his hand, pointed at the red lines drawn with a cinnabar pen, and said, "Look, this red line represents the route of the sunken ship."

"This ship's route covers all waters of the Tang Dynasty. It has traveled to many places in the past two years. There seems to be no pattern. But if the time is extended to two years and all routes are marked, you can see... …”

Lin Feng drew a circle on the map with his finger and said: "It passes through this body of water the most times. No matter where the starting point is, it will pass through this body of water at least six times out of ten."

After listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Gou and Sun Fujia looked quickly.

Sun Fujia's eyes moved slightly: "Could it be said... that its different starting points pick up the abducted people from different places? And the place where it passes the most is the place where it unloads those people?"

"That must be the case!" Du Gou looked at the map with burning eyes and said, "Otherwise, the frequency of going here would not be so high. This is obviously different from the routes of other ships...the business of these cargo ships is not fixed. Yes, they will go wherever the employer pays them more, so unless they have a fixed employer, they will not go to the same water area frequently."

"But in my investigation, the sunken ship did not have a fixed employer."

Hearing this, Lin Feng smiled and shook his head: "It's not that there is no fixed employer... but that the fixed employer is hidden in the dark. And as you said, only when you have a fixed employer can you travel to the same water area with high frequency."

Lin Feng's words seemed to be deliberately quarreling with Du Gou, but Du Gou's mind was sharp and he quickly understood what Lin Feng meant.

He nodded quickly: "Yes, the employer of the shipwreck is the Four Elephant Organization. They have been smuggling people for the Four Elephant Organization these years, so..."

He looked at Lin Feng: "These people must be in this water area."

"And this water area..." Du Gou looked at the map and said solemnly: "It is the water area of ​​​​the Zhang River... Judging from its length, it is two hundred miles long, and it even includes our Cizhou area."

Lin Feng touched his chin and nodded: "But the distance is still a bit long. Two hundred miles along the river, the area involved is too wide, and there are many deep mountains and dense forests. It cannot be searched in three days."

"But this is a huge breakthrough."

Lin Feng exhaled a long breath, looked at the two of them, and said slowly: "To be honest with you, I have always been worried that the people are hiding in places far away. If it is as far away as Chang'an, then I will really be in despair. , even if we knew where they were hidden, we wouldn’t have time to rescue them... After all, the journey is more than three days."

"And now, knowing that they are within a radius of two hundred miles from us, or even less than two hundred miles, is enough for us to arrive in less than a day after finding out where they are trapped. This pair of For me, it is tantamount to solving my worst worries.”

"Let me know that my efforts have a chance to save them, instead of struggling helplessly."

After listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Gou and Sun Fujia looked at each other, and then they both looked at Lin Feng with pity.

Behind Lin Feng's seemingly relaxed smile, he was really burdened with too much.

Sun Fujia smiled: "Even if it's just these, the road map we worked so hard to create is not a loss."

"Dr. Sun, please don't say that."

Lin Feng smiled and said: "I still hope to find more clues. It would be great if we could directly find the place where they are trapped."

Sun Fuga hurriedly made two noises: "Look at my mouth. Yes, it would be great if I could find it in one go. Let's keep looking."

Everyone's attention fell on the map again.

However, except for the route map of the sunken ship, which has a very obvious concentrated water area, the routes of other ships cannot be said to be highly overlapped, but can only be said to be completely unrelated.

Those four cargo ships all had sailing experience in the waters of the Zhang River, but they were not as concentrated as the sunken ships.

Except for the second massacred ship, which sailed in the Zhang River waters more often, the other three ships did not even make a trip a year.

This made Du Gou and Sun Fujia frown.

Du Gou solemnly said: "How could this be? Why are there so few other ships sailing in the Zhang River? Is our inference wrong? Aren't those people hidden in the waters of the Zhang River?"

When Sun Feng heard this, his heart sank. This was good news that Lin Feng finally got. If it was denied because of this, wouldn't it be that the pressure that Lin Feng had finally relaxed would suddenly increase again?

He couldn't help but look at Lin Feng worriedly.

But Lin Feng shook his head and said, "No! One of the cargo ships transporting people has sunk. There will definitely be no problem with its route."

"So it's not the wreck that's the problem, it's the other four ships."

Du Gou was startled: "The other four ships?"

Lin Feng nodded, pointed at the map, and said, "Look, the number of times the second ship has sailed in the Zhanghe River in the past year and a half is obviously more than a year and a half ago."

"And the excess lasted until two months ago..."

"And this ship."

Lin Feng moved his finger and pointed at the third cargo ship that was involved in the accident, and said: "And this ship sailed in the waters of the Zhang River at least once a month between two years ago and one and a half years ago."

"But at that time point a year and a half ago, the number of its voyages dropped sharply, and it only traveled once in half a year. In the remaining year, it was only this time that it was slaughtered, and then it traveled to the waters of the Zhang River again."

Lin Feng looked at the two of them and said, "Do you see the problem?"

"Just after the third ship stopped sailing in the waters of the Zhang River, the second ship began to increase its sailings in the waters of the Zhang River..."

Du Gou's brain was spinning rapidly, and he saw his eyes flashing, and he said hurriedly: "You mean... the Four Elephant Organization does not use these four ships at the same time, but uses one ship for a period of time?"

Lin Feng met Du Gou's gaze and said, "Does Mr. Lai Guo still remember what we read in Wang Heng's diary? Wang Heng said that it was three years ago when he saw the mysterious man walking out of the third ship. …”

"Three years ago!" Du Gou's eyes suddenly widened, his pupils dilated slightly, and he said: "Yes, three years ago... So, the mysterious man only found the third ship three years ago, that is to say, the third ship The boat only started working for him three years ago, and a year and a half ago, the third boat suddenly stopped sailing in the waters of the Zhang River, and the second boat started to take over..."

"That's right, just as you said, Zide." Du Gou said excitedly: "They don't move at the same time, but each ship travels for a period of time, and each ship may even be used for a year and a half."

One and a half years for each ship, and four ships for exactly six years... This is consistent with the time when Lin Feng, the former Prime Minister of Dali Temple, hid in Dali Temple. Lin Feng's eyes flashed slightly, and he felt that he was close to the truth.

"but……"

Lin Feng picked up the paper and compared the second and third ships one by one with the ferry where the sunken ship docked in the Zhang River waters.

Then he frowned and said: "There are no less than a dozen starting and ending points where they park in the waters of the Zhang River, and there are many more that just pass by the Zhang River and do not stop in the waters of the Zhang River."

Du Gou and Sun Fujia were both smart people, and they quickly understood what Lin Feng meant.

Sun Fuga frowned and said, "Did they deliberately hide the ferry at the hiding place?"

Du Gou pondered for a moment and said: "It may not be that they hid it deliberately. After all, they all have reasonable reasons for sailing, so those terminal ferries should be the destination of their employers on the surface in order to hide their eyes from others, but in fact On the road, they only need to secretly dock at a certain ferry for a period of time during the night while sailing on the Zhang River, and then leave before dawn, and no one will notice them at all."

Sun Fujia's heart sank, and he said: "Doesn't this mean that we can't rely on the starting point and end point of their voyage to determine the location of the ferry?"

Du Gou nodded heavily.

I thought that I would be able to make a breakthrough after discovering the pattern of the Four Elephant Organization's use of cargo ships, but who knew that Sun Fuga's crow's mouth would actually hit the target.

The useful clues they can get are the scope initially drawn.

This made them look at Lin Feng solemnly, and at this time, Lin Feng's brows were furrowed between them.

Lin Feng said: "Actually, I have expected this. With the cunning and cautious nature of the Four Elephants organization, this situation is normal."

"And what I'm most worried about is here."

Du Gou and Sun Fujia subconsciously looked at the area pointed by Lin Feng's finger.

Then, their expressions suddenly changed, and their pupils suddenly shrank.

Then Lin Feng said in a deep voice: "The Four Elephants organization uses cargo ships to secretly transport some mysterious goods. In other words, the waters of the Zhanghe River are either the starting point or the end point... Then, there must be another end, or the end. The beginning or the end.”

"So, if we remove all the other sailing routes of the second and third ships, leaving only the ones connecting the waters of Zhanghe River, we can find..."

"The other end of them, no matter which waters they travel through, will eventually intersect in this area."

"This is the gathering place of the Wei River, Jing River and other eight rivers, and there is the most important city near these eight rivers."

Lin Feng said while looking at Du Gou and Sun Fujia: "Chang'an!"

"How could it be Chang'an?"

Sun Fujia was horrified and frightened.

Du Gou's scalp was numb.

With their ability, they instantly realized what this meant, and this speculation caused their composure to disappear at this moment, making them horrified.

Lin Feng looked at the two people and said in a deep voice: "It would be fine if Chang'an is the starting point, but if Chang'an is the end point...it means that Chang'an City is the goal of the Four Elephants Organization!"

"In the past six years, the Four Elephants Organization has been transporting certain things to Chang'an non-stop."

"They spent a full six years transporting it to Chang'an City bit by bit, planning bit by bit, not hurriedly, not hurriedly, and no one knew about the secret six years."

"Now, they have completed their delivery plan."

"We have even silenced him, dealt with his tail, and solved all future troubles."

"So... you two."

"Chang'an City..."

Lin Feng stared at the map, took a deep breath, and said with a frightening solemnity in his voice: "I'm afraid of danger!"

(End of this chapter)